It's been quite a changes to our defence

Lewis Holtby wasn't here last season but of the others that have gone this summer there are three defensive midfielders and two centre-backs.



OUT: Paulinho (£9.9m), Lewis Holtby (£4.6m + £1.75m loan fee), Etienne Capoue (£6.23m), Younes Kaboul (£3m), Benjamin Stambouli (£6m) and Vlad Chiriches (£4.5m) = £34.63m (£1.75m).

That speaks volumes for the problems areas within the squad, at least the ones that needed resolving first. The three players who Mauricio Pochettino has brought in have all been defenders and we have also been trying to sign defensive midfield players, Christoph Kramer being top of that list.

The players who have departed certainly in terms of game time won't be missed, they only made 60 Premier League appearances last season between them, in terms of minutes they only played 36.51 games.

Paulinho 15 games 304 minutes, Lewis Holtby 0 games 0 minutes, Etienne Capoue 12 games 897 minutes, Younes Kaboul 11 games 909 minutes, Benjamin Stambouli 12 games 469 minutes and Vlad Chiriches 10 games 707 minutes - 60 games, 3,286 minutes, equivalent to 36.51 full games.

IN: Kevin Wimmer (£4.5m), Kieran Trippier (£3.5m) and Toby Alderweireld (£11.2m) = £19.2m

Last summer Federico Fazio, Eric Dier, DeAndre Yedlin and Ben Davies arrived, then there is Kyle Walker who only played 15 games because of injury, quite a turnaround in defence in two summers.

You would expect with such a turnaround of the defensive positions we will be stronger this season. We saw an improvement in Danny Rose so perhaps this season will a full season we will see a similar improvement in Kyle Walker.

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